New York State Led US Life-Expectancy Drop in 2020, CDC Says

Life expectancy in New York plummeted by three years in 2020, the biggest decline among all states in the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

Residents of the state are expected to live to just under 78, the 15th-highest life expectancy in the country and a steep drop from 2019, when they had the third-highest ranking, the health authority said in state-level data published Tuesday.

Overall US life expectancy plunged by 1.8 years in 2020, the biggest drop since World War II, as the pandemic ravaged the country, the CDC said …